Stove.



PATENTED SEPT. 18, 1906.

J. B. SUMNER.

STOVE.

PPLIOATION FILED JULY19, 1905 I pl [Hill UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES E. SUMNER, OF JONES, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ROYAL E. JONES, OF WILMOT, ARKANSAS.

STOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18, 1906.

Application filed uly 19, 1905. Serial No- 270,886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES E. SUMNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jones, in the parish of Morehouse and State of Louisiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to stoves, being especially directed to an improved grate therefor, and has for its objects to produce a comparatively simple inexpensive device of this character by which ashes accumulated in the stove may be readily removed therefromone by which the draft may be regulated and controlled and one in which the movable grate member may be readily adjusted for opening or entirely closing the ash-delivery opening.

With these and other objects in view the invention comprises the novel features of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a stove embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken centrally and longitudinally through the grate. Fig. 3 is a cross-section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the movable grate member.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a stove having a grate 2, provided with a central ash-delivery opening 3, there being formed in the Wall of the stove immediately below the plane of the grate 2 a series of draft-openings 4, while beneath the grate and sustained upon a false bottom 5 is a removable pan 6, constituting an ash-pit. These parts, except as hereinafter explained, may all be ofthe usual or any appropriate construction and material.

Arranged for longitudinal movement beneath the grate 2 and sustained by a pair of parallel guides 7, attached to the lower face of the latter, is a movable grate member or cut-off 8, having adjacent its inner-or rear end a plurality of longitudinally-extending openings or slots 9, spaced to produce gratebars 10, there being fixed to the outer or for- Ward end of the member 8 a rigid'operating rod or element 11, slidable through a suitable bearing-opening 12 in the wall of the stove and provided at its outer end with a head 13,

' parts adjusted for effecting while formed at the longitudinal side edges of the member 8 are guide portions or flanges 14:, designed to seat in the guides 7.

In practice, supposing the parts to be arranged as in Figs. 2 and 3, with the grated portion of member 3 the air entering the stove through the draft-openings 4 will pass upward through the openings 9 and 3 to the fuel for feeding and creating combustion of the latter,it being apparent that the amount of air thus admitted may be readily regulated for regulating the combustion by moving the member 8 inward to partially or wholly close the opening 3. As the fuel in the stove is consumed the ashes will discharge through openings 3 and 9 into the ash-pan, it being obvious that by drawing the rod 11 outward for effecting a similar movement of the member 8 the opening 3 may be wholly opened, thereby permitting the free discharge of the ashes through the latter into the ash-pan.

From the foregoing it is apparent that I produce a simple device which in practice will admirably perform its function to the attainment of the ends in view and one Wherein the draft may be readily controlled and the a rapid discharge of the ashes from the stove, it being under stood that in attaining these ends minor changes in the details herein set forth may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim is 1. In combination with a stove, a grate sustained therein and provided with a discharge-opening, guides provided on the lower face of'the grate, a longitudinally-slidable grate member having longitudinal side flanges slidably engaged with said guides, and an operating-rod connected with the grate member, the latter being provided with a grated portion and with an imperforate por* tion, either of which may be brought into register with the discharge-opening through longitudinal movement of the grate member.

2. In combination with a stove having its side walls provided with a series of perforations, a grate sustained in the stove in a plane immediately above said perforations and provided with a discharge-opening, longitudinal guide members attached to the 8 in register with opening lower face of the grate, a lorigitudinally-slidl grate through longitudinal movement of the m able grate member having side flanges and grate member.

engaged with said guide members, and an In testimony whereof I aflix my signature operating rod projecting from thg fpwarill in presence of two witnesses.

5 end of the grate member outwar t ou the wall of the stove, said grate member ha v- JAMES SUMNER ing a grated portion and an imperforate por- Witnesses: tion, either of which may be brought into RoB'r. H. GANNAWAY,

register with the disCharge-opening in the W. T; I'IADLEY. 

